Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Protective immune trajectories in early viral containment of non-pneumonic SARS-CoV-2 infection

  • Kami Pekayvaz,
  • Alexander Leunig,
  • Rainer Kaiser,
  • Markus Joppich,
  • Sophia Brambs,
  • Aleksandar Janjic,
  • Oliver Popp,
  • Daniel Nixdorf,
  • Valeria Fumagalli,
  • Nora Schmidt,
  • Vivien Polewka,
  • Afra Anjum,
  • Viktoria Knottenberg,
  • Luke Eivers,
  • Lucas E. Wange,
  • Christoph Gold,
  • Marieluise Kirchner,
  • Maximilian Muenchhoff,
  • Johannes C. Hellmuth,
  • Clemens Scherer,
  • Raquel Rubio-Acero,
  • Tabea Eser,
  • Flora Deák,
  • Kerstin Puchinger,
  • Niklas Kuhl,
  • Andreas Linder,
  • Kathrin Saar,
  • Lukas Tomas,
  • Christian Schulz,
  • Andreas Wieser,
  • Wolfgang Enard,
  • Inge Kroidl,
  • Christof Geldmacher,
  • Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon,
  • Oliver T. Keppler,
  • Mathias Munschauer,
  • Matteo Iannacone,
  • Ralf Zimmer,
  • Philipp Mertins,
  • Norbert Hubner,
  • Michael Hoelscher,
  • Steffen Massberg,
  • Konstantin Stark,
  • Leo Nicolai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28508-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Infection with SARS-COV-2 can result in self-limited upper airway infection or progress to a more systemic inflammatory condition including pneumonic COVID-19. Here the authors utilise a multi-omics approach to interrogate the immune response of patients with self-limiting upper respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection and reveal a temporal immune trajectory they associate with viral containment and restriction from pneumonic progressive disease.